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Comparing not knowing a niche concept to functional illiteracy and then berating someone for playfully pointing out that the concept is niche isn't the clever gotcha you think it is, it just comes across as snobbish or elitist.
You wanted the conversation to go exactly where you wanted it to go. You didn't write an essay the next guy missed the point of, you made a comment, and they made a comment in an informal online forum space. Just seems like you made a "joke" and then they made a joke focused on the part of the discussion they're interested in, but because it's not the exact response you were looking for (which I'm guessing was simply affirmation), you assume they missed your point.
I looked up the test and I get top category because I can read and understand academic papers but I'd fail that guys test since I'd never heard of it.
Again, this isn't the primary argument I made.
One can make an argument, a logical construction, and then provide an example.
The example is not the argument.
It exemplifies the argument.
Being able to identify what parts of a text serve what purpose... is a part of the skillset of more advanced literacy.
A person with a broader vocabulary definitionally has a superior level of literacy, as compared to a person who has a smaller vocabulary, all else held equal.
This just literally is part of how literacy is measured.
A person with superior literacy does have an elite level of comprehension, compared to someone with an inferior level of literacy.
You cannot construct a comparative scale of levels of literacy without scores that are higher and lowers than others, sets of concepts they do and do not understand, and can or cannot make use of.
A person who can evaluate integrals in calculus has a superior, elite level of mathematical comprehension, as compared to someone who can only do algebra.
If you have no metric, no measurement, no way to compare levels of ability in a subject... you cannot objectively compare them.
You're now presuming to read my inner thoughts, read my mind.
No, I did not.
You are thinking I devised this all as a trap, that I was waiting to spring.
In reality, I woke up, read a reply to a thing I wrote before I fell asleep, and viewed it as an opporunity to further educate people on what literacy is, how this works.
But you have intuited hostile intent from this, probably because you don't like the idea of me explaining to someone that they are not as literate as they think they are, or that its simply insulting to point this out.
To the contrary, understanding what literacy actually is, how it works, how it can be and is measured...
These are fundamental things to grasp if you or anyone is serious about improving their own literacy, or the general literacy of the populace.
This is especially important when a literate public is vital to a functioning democratic society.
You have to understand the nuances, the complexities.
But, if you instead want to attack those you dissgree with, because you do not comprehend what they are saying...
If you want to assume everything is some kind of intentional, personal attack...
Don't expect society or your understanding of it to get any better, any time soon.
You're digging in your heels on something you're fundamentally wrong about. You're still talking about the nuts and bolts of syntax and grammar and vocabulary, which is an element of literacy but a dimension that isn't particular all that important past a "good enough" threshold, at which point other dimensions start to predominate in terms of the broader look at what constitutes advanced literacy.
Being able to identify text is just a stepping stone towards being able to identify author intent, subtext, humor, artistic value, references and homages, metaphors, etc.
So what you're talking about is important for literacy, but it's still pretty far down the ladder of what many people would consider "advanced" literacy, and kinda a demonstration of the opposite of what you intend to convey: the fake LLM comment was making a joke, and you showed that you lack the more advanced literacy of being able to evaluate the text and the context for the underlying subtext, which was to be funny. Your decision to engage with it at face value entirely misses the point, and is itself a demonstration of failing a test of higher level literacy.
No, I acknowledged and understood the joke.
Literally the first thing I said.
The vast majority of my comment was an explanation of the false premise that was misread into what I said, in the text following the LLM joke.
That so many people cannot follow or interpret ... what I actually said... demonstrates that, in some cases, a more advanced level of literacy is indeed required.